U.S.-China cyber war

1:47 AM,
Jun. 13, 2013

Written by

DeWayne Wickham

Fresh from publicly defending his own administration's cyberspace hanky-panky, President Obama challenged Chinese President Xi Jinping to rein in China's unacknowledged misuse of the Internet to steal some of this country's most important economic and military secrets.

Doing something about cyberespionage is "at the center of the relationship" between the world's two leading superpowers, national security adviser Tom Donilon told reporters last week during a two-day summit between the U.S. and Chinese leaders in the California desert town of Rancho Mirage.